TechEd was an annuaw conference for devewopers and IT professionaws put on by Microsoft. It took pwace in severaw wocations around de worwd. The first TechEd happened in 1993 in Orwando, Fworida, United States, de wast took pwace in Barcewona in 2014. Microsoft awtered its conference scheduwe and introduced Microsoft Ignite from 2015 on, uh-hah-hah-hah.

The conference normawwy wasts between dree and five days, and consists of presentation and whiteboard sessions and hands-on wabs. It offers opportunities to meet Microsoft experts, MVPs and community members. Networking is enhanced drough parties, community areas and "Ask de Expert" sessions. The event awso incwudes an exhibition area where vendors can show off technowogies and seww products. There is a vast content catawog from which attendees can sewect sessions dat wiww be most beneficiaw. An agenda is pubwished onwine before de conference begins.

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Was previouswy known as TechEd Souf Africa untiw 2007, where it changed to TechEd Africa. 2007 was awso de wast year de event was hosted at Sun City, after which it was moved to de Durban Internationaw Conference Centre (ICC) due to de growing size of de audience, which was no wonger abwe to be accommodated at Sun City.

Microsoft TechEd India has been an annuaw fixture since 2003 except for 2008 which was de onwy year when Microsoft TechEd India event was not organized.

In 2006, TechEd was hewd in New Dewhi, Pune, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangawore during de monf of June. There were two TechEd events hewd in each city, de first one dewved into architecturaw aspects of technowogy and waid emphasis on de needs of de Architect audience awongside four tracks focused on Pwatform and Toows for Devewopers. The second event was geared towards technowogy professionaws working on IT infrastructure.

In 2007, TechEd was hewd in Bangawore.

In 2009, TechEd was hewd in Hyderabad in de monf of May. Rechristened Microsoft TechMewa, de name change was necessitated by an urge to Indianize de event and its content so dat it awigned wif de edos of every Indian, uh-hah-hah-hah. It was attended by over 2,500 CXOs, TDMs, BDMs, Devewopers, IT Professionaws, Architects, Designers, facuwty Members and Technowogy Students.

TechEd-India 2009 was keynoted by Steve Bawwmer, de onwy TechEd event worwdwide where Steve Bawwmer was to speak. There were 28 Technicaw Tracks dat spanned more dan 112 breakout sessions, 24 instructor-wed Labs, more dan 20 Chawk-Tawk sessions. The tracks were designed as a navigationaw toow which assisted in finding de sessions and wabs best suited for individuaw needs.

In 2011, TechEd India was hewd in Bangawore from March 23–25 at Hotew Lawit Ashok. The event incwuded keynotes by Senior Microsoft Executives, breakout sessions, hands-on-wabs, instructor-wed wabs, product team tents, free Microsoft certification, community programs and sowution expo. The event was keynoted by Qi Lu.

In 2012, 2013, and 2014, Tech Ed India was hewd in Bangawore at The LaLiT Hotews, Pawaces and Resorts.

TechEd Onwine was an onwine suppwement to de in-person events, which contained video interviews recorded at de event, videos of sessions and keynotes, bwogs and speaker bwog aggregation, uh-hah-hah-hah. Much of dis content can now be found on Microsoft's Channew 9.

For TechEd Norf America, video recordings, session swide decks, and suppwementaw content can be found on myTechEd.

Microsoft myTechEd is an onwine community and sociaw networking toow where conference attendees can participate in technicaw discussions, access recordings of past year's sessions, and connect wif speakers and oder attendees drough a directory. myTechEd is a free resource avaiwabwe for bof in-person attendees and virtuaw attendees who are not abwe to make it to de annuaw conference.